I sure as hell hope not. I hope that Canadian journalist Scott Taylor was released without any promises by Canada. I hope that someone in Al Qua’eda just decided to release him, for some strange unexplained reason.
But this sounds very fishy:
“Turkish intelligence people say I’m the only Westerner ever released by the Al-Qaeda group and they can’t understand why,” he told the daily.
In Ottawa, the foreign affairs ministry said little about the story. A spokesman said Taylor was received late Monday at the Canadian embassy in Ankara. “I will not tell you anything more,” the spokesman, Reynald Doiron, told AFP.
I know that the Canadian policy has been to try to stay out of the line of fire as much as possible, in hopes that we won’t become a target. And as far as I can tell, nobody’s suggesting that Taylor’s release was anything other than spontaneous.
I hope that’s the end of the story. For all our sakes.
Maybe the terrorists learned that Taylor was on record as being oppposed to the war in Iraq….
Our Government still has influence?!…Anywhere?